Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:34:42 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701201522070.17428@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701200952300.37959@wonkity.com> References: <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com> <20170116230336.2cc22d94@riseup.net> <45c5ea44-e0b4-2698-da8e-707c507eb086@holgerdanske.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701172256330.1046@wonkity.com> <20170118031855.48fbbe2c@riseup.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701181757440.45317@wonkity.com> <2d4edb680db8c48f2be352b074f2b968@mhoenicka.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701190750510.55707@wonkity.com> <955ae51c90249264567d01d77b656093@mhoenicka.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701200952300.37959@wonkity.com>
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > >> Turns out to be a case of not RTFM. I do not use a display manager. >> Instead, I run startxfce4 from the console after logging in. The XFCE docs >> say to use startxfce4 --with-ck-launch in this case: >> >> http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/advanced >> >> Things may work out of the box if you use a display manager. > > I do not use a display manager either, not worth the effort for me. Just > startx. > > My .xinitrc has this: > > # WB: map the Zap combination > setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp > > exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 --with-ck-launch At least with 10.3 packages, this has all been cleared up. I like and use xdm because my workstations and laptops have multiple accounts. My only issue was that xfce has a requirement of dbus-1.8.20. This makes installing firefox and thunderbird somewhat challenging and rules out pidgin. I have updated Firefox requirements in the past with not so good results to xfce. As I am 1,000 miles from my workstation, I will wait to give this a try. 11.0 sadly did not support the NIC on my laptop. All else went without issue just install necessary packages. Startx out of the box only installing xorg and xfce runs twm. WIFI on this (a 4-5 year old Dell Insprion has never been supported FBSDs 8-11).
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